The Power of Words. Text Features - Imaginative Writing. LanguageFeatures.pdf - Education NT Govt. Language features | Teaching AC English. Narrative Point of View. Is There A Name For That? Grammar Fun With -Nyms. How often have you thought about some language phenomenon and wondered if there was a name for that? Is there a term for what someone named Mr.
Read teaches English or if the definition of a single word can mean one thing and the exact opposite thing? Chances are there is a word for that. Perhaps you’re familiar with synonyms and antonyms — words that mean the same thing and words that mean the opposite things, respectively. But do you know your backronyms from your eponyms? Let’s take a walk through the world of grammar for some of the fun, interesting, and neat quirks of the English language, all of which conveniently end in -nym. Antagonym or Contronym What happens when you have two words that are spelled and pronounced the same way, but their varying definitions make them contradictory?
Examples of antagonyms: anxious, bound, clip, hysterical, replace, scan. If you were anxious about something, you could have been either extremely distressed about it or extremely excited about it.